User Comments

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   6/19/09

   lvs

   you have a very good point. It is true for me, I do attract more friends here than on my blog? Why do you think that is?

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      7/19/09

      skippermas

      comment removed by the community.
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      7/19/09

      crpitt

      Why the need for that stupid/disgusting statement? Idiot
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   6/19/09

   justmck

   because this place is mostly about linking and back-linking, and not about quality?

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      6/19/09

      lvs

      I think people just like to hang out and have some fun here pursing trivial stuff, which they cannot do on a blog.
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   6/19/09

   Bullgrit

   Isn't it a competition? Who ever has the most friends on blog catalog when the Internet finishes is the winner.

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      7/19/09

      skippermas

      To me, growing my blog and gaining traffic as well as links is why I opened a account here,not to make friends(got enough already).I have used most avenues to push my blog,this being one of them,but I see some people will have a few hundred friends here,and then 10 followers on their blog!
      Should be vice versa surely.This isnt Facebook or Myspace
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      7/19/09

      hatingtherain

      I'm sure you have no problem making plenty of friends with that charming wit and personality.
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   7/19/09

   timethief

   When it comes to making people as friends at BC the policy each of us chooses to create is our own.
   
   (1) I mark some members as friends whose blogs I do not read. I do that because although I may not read their blogs, I may be offering them ongoing assistance with improving their blogging and their blog. (I'm a blogging tips blogger.)
   
   (2) In addition I add some members as friends based on my appreciation of the contribution they make to the BC community by way of the threads they post to the forum, and/or comments they post into forum threads. I do this even though we may not hold the same POV.
   
   (3) I also add members as friends, who have blogs that I mark as favorites, subscribe to and regularly read, whether or not they are related blogs found in the same niches as my own blogs.
   
   However, just because I mark another member as a friend or their blog as a favorite does not mean that I will link my blog to theirs. The last 4 Google updates have made it clear that reciprocal linking, especially, to non-related sites is not the way to go. And I think that it's important to understand that "times, they are a changin" (credit Bob Dylan).
   
   Reciprocal link exchanges ... MEH
   Quality reciprocal link exchanges in and of themselves are not a bad thing, but most reciprocal link offers are of low quality. If too many of your links are of low quality it may make it harder for your site to rank for relevant queries, and some search engines may look at inbound link and outbound link ratios as well as link quality when determining how natural a site’s link profile is.
   
   Every blog needs one-way non-reciprocal links and mile long blogrolls are going the way of the dinosaurs. Read more in this post to the BC New Users group titled:
   To Link or Not to Link?
   www.blogcatalog.com/group/new-blog-catalog-users/discuss/entry/to-link-or-n...

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   7/19/09

   Descartes

   I'm not sure that I consider the 'friends' I have on sites like Blogcatalog and Twitter and Digg and so on and so forth to be of all that big a help in growing a blog. That whole quality content thing,or at least content that is trending or buzzing is a better way to get eyes on a blog. People that stop by a second and leave are not much help.
   
   Stats like Followers and Friends are just for the blogger's ego, not their bottom line.

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